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I recently watched a segment on King 5 News around how some government agencies are using legacy systems for their day-to-day work. The article was highlighting the software program used at the Department of Licensing to process vehicle registrations, however, there are a number of additional agencies that are using legacy programs and platforms for their day-to-day processes. The segment went on to discuss how expensive it would be to update all of those systems. Continue reading →

ImageSource recently announced the winners of the 2011 Nexus Customer Partner Awards. The winners all show exceptional and innovative ways of utilizing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies and include San Jose State University, ESCO Corporation and Mira Costa College.

ImageSource has proposed three presentations ideas for Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Please help us bring these valuable presentations to the Oracle community by voting for the three sessions below at the Oracle Mix website.

Getting Real with Oracle ECM 11g – Benefits & Lessons Learned from Going LiveJoin this interactive discussion on the implementation of Oracle ECM 11g. See successful 11g installs for Accounts Payable and Records Management and learn how the most recent Oracle technology sets a solid foundation for these organizations for years to come. Discover how 11g provides a tight integration between vertical components providing a wide range of choices and more flexibility in architecting and designing solutions. Explore how Oracle 11g also provides a host of benefits in the context of the broader Oracle line-of-business platforms – weather it’s Siebel, CRM on demand, JD Edwards or PeopleSoft – the integrations will be tight.

Mastering Records Management and Retention Policies with Oracle ECM 11gOne of the largest counties in the Northwest recently implemented Oracle ECM 11g for Universal Records Management. The system, designed around the core concept of contribution folders, is blazing the way to effectively manage records County-wide. The technology provides a hierarchal structure, with drag-and-drop functionality and automatic metadata and retention policies, for efficient and effective records management. Discover how this infrastructure for records management can facilitate Public Disclosure Requests and unleash the many enterprise capabilities of Oracle 11g.

Oracle ECM & PeopleSoft/JDE – A Synergistic CombinationIf you use PeopleSoft/JDE and are interested in extending their capabilities to accelerate multiple business processes, then this is a must-attend session. Through a tight integration, business processes are automated using Oracle ECM software to leverage your data residing in your Oracle database, optimizing operations. Further advancing efficiencies, users can utilize ECM functionality without leaving the familiar PeopleSoft/JDE interface. Capture structured and unstructured information from paper or any digital source, develop electronic workflows and store all your information in a secure repository. Learn about specific synergistic solutions that have streamlined processes for Higher Ed, Financial Services, Human Resources and more.

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Accounts Payable is a document intense department with complicated workflows and approval processes. Although our world today is going digital, AP departments are still bogged down by a majority of documents (purchase orders, invoices and supporting documentation) coming in paper form followed by manual routing and approval processes, keyed data entry to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and the physical filing and storage of documents.

While ERP systems handle the information they are designed to process very well, they do not have the capacity to manage data and images simultaneously or perform complicated workflows. By automating the entire AP process organizations can reduce labor requirements, lessen storage costs, decrease late fees, increase early pay discounts and improve vendor satisfaction. And because Accounts Payable touches almost every department it is a great launch pad for ECM technology providing a large impact on the organizational business processes and substantial ROI.

ImageSource is an ECM integrator with vast experience implementing Accounts Payable Solutions and an industry leader in implementing the Oracle 11g technology. Most recently we completed a project for a large manufacturing company integrating Oracle 11g ECM technology with the Accounts Payable system, Oracle Enterprise Business Suite. As a manufacturer poised for growth due to multiple acquisitions, they were looking for a solution that could handle the increase in invoices without increasing staff.

With Oracle EBS already in place, Oracle 11g was the perfect ECM solution. Oracle’s Solution Accelerator enables such a tightly coupled integration that it makes the two technologies ideal for integration. The result is an Accounts Payable system that has provided an efficient system for imaging, processing and viewing documents related to AP with a reduction in overall labor.

The manufacturer receives over 8,000 invoices a month, 80% in paper form and the other 20% through email and fax. All are now processed by Oracle Document Capture and Oracle Forms Recognition (OFR) when received. Oracle Document Capture scans the document and Oracle Forms Recognition automatically extracts relevant data and does some basic validation. The document is then automatically sent to Oracle ECM for more validation and storing of the image. Due to the sophisticated logic with code and BPEL workflows, the system performs all kinds of checks, and is able to move information from Oracle ECM to Oracle EBS without human assistance. Knowledge workers can stay in their familiar EBS system and reference any invoice they need by clicking on the recognizable paper-clip. EBS pushes the parameters to the ECM repository and brings back the search results in a web link.

The ease of processing invoices has been improved dramatically. What used to be a manual process of keying in information is now completely automated. The only time an invoice needs any type of processing, barring exceptions, is the physical act of scanning it in. After it’s scanned the Oracle OCR technology adds the appropriate index fields and the Solution Accelerator automatically moves it through the system for validation and storage until it is available to view through Oracle EBS.

ImageSource has proposed 3 presentation ideas for Oracle OpenWorld. Please take the time to go to the Oracle Mix website and vote for the ImageSource presentations.

Best Practices for Upgrading to Oracle IPM 11gThis session will explore opportunities for organizations looking to upgrade to Oracle IPM 11g. Expert integrators who have worked with this product from its inception will examine best practices when moving to 11g. We’ll explore how IPM 11g offers a true platform for enterprise deployments. Learn the best way to transition, how you can still use SQL databases and about exciting new features. Explore the extensible architecture, the BPM platform and understand how the open integration to MANY lines of business applications, in a loosely-coupled manner is a good change from the hard coded integration of the past & how it will affect future upgrades.

The Future Direction of ECM – Oracle IPM 11gThe speculation is over and Oracle IPM 11g is upon us. Independent expert integrators will present a case study example on a new implementation and explore how IPM 11g offers a true platform for enterprise deployments. Discover the best way to transition, how you can still use SQL databases and about exciting new features like wizards, searches, inputs & connections to external data sources. Explore why an extensible architecture benefits multiple business processes and how the BPM platform simplifies the implementation of workflow. Understand why the open integration to MANY lines of business applications, in a loosely-coupled manner is a good change from the hard coded integration of the past & how it will affect future upgrades.

Oracle ECM in Higher Ed – Conquering Registration, Transcripts & Financial AidUniversities are experiencing an explosion of information. The need to control it, even leverage it, has never been greater. From registration to transcripts to financial aid and more, today’s students expect online services and electronic forms facilitating faster decisions and timely responses. This session will explore how Oracle Enterprise Content Management allows institutions to optimize specific, departmental business processes while providing a common platform for all information processes across the enterprise. Higher Ed experts will show how Oracle ECM provides a reliable way for all departments to securely access the same, current, accurate information.

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What the Experts are Saying: Technical Expertise for ECM

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Migrations from systems like IBPM to ILINX can be fraught with issues that can bite the unwary in very bad places. However, if you are aware of such problems, you can plan ways to mitigate them and have a successful migration in the end. One issue we run into is documents that have a page […]

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about ECM migrations, with a focus specifically on moving content from Oracle IPM/Imaging to other destination systems—projects we’ve been performing a lot of lately. Our tools of choice for migrations are ILINX Export and ILINX Import, but if the destination ECM system isn’t supported by ILINX Import, […]

One of the things we’ve always done a lot of here at ImageSource is migrations, it’s definitely one of our core competencies. For a little more information on our approach to migrations, you can review my earlier post here. Lately the migrations have been more focused because most of them involve moving content out of […]

Starting with ILINX Capture v6, the Release configurations are stored within the ILINX database. In ILINX Capture v5x, the ILINX Release configurations were stored in XML files on a disk. ILINX Capture called ILINX Release using a SendAndReceivedReply IXM. The change to store the settings within the ILINX database is very useful for a number of […]